{"id":88839,"date":"2026-05-07T16:40:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88839"},"modified":"2026-05-07T16:40:56","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T16:40:56","slug":"british-gas-raises-the-alarm-after-surge-in-unpaid-energy-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/07\/british-gas-raises-the-alarm-after-surge-in-unpaid-energy-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"British Gas raises the alarm after surge in unpaid energy bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/th.bing.com\/th\/id\/OIP.l7_Q3H0WTy_KXk4OXpk2AQHaFF?w=268&amp;h=184&amp;c=7&amp;r=0&amp;o=7&amp;dpr=1.7&amp;pid=1.7&amp;rm=3\" alt=\"Image result for british gas\" \/><\/p>\n<p>British Gas has raised the alarm about surging household energy debts, revealing families failed to pay more than \u00a31bn in bills last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/british-gas-raises-the-alarm-after-surge-in-unpaid-energy-bills\/ar-AA22BoiQ?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=69fcbcac4e1a416d8b4f698120576c1f&amp;ei=51\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>&nbsp; British Gas has raised the alarm about surging household energy debts, revealing families failed to pay more than \u00a31bn in bills&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/British-Gas.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88841,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88839\/revisions\/88841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}